Welcome to The Minus Plato Archive! This website documents the blog, platform and persona Minus Plato (2012-2022). You can choose to explore the archive through the headers above or if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, via the dropdown tab ‘Archive’ that lists all the posts by date. But before you get […]
I could go on to the ‘trinkets’ sold by market traders and street peddlers. But that would be a whole other story. – Lina Bo Bardi What gets lost in translation? How might improvised actions and conversations, as well as collective thought experiments, invite us to engage with the seemingly unimportant/invisible structural and atmospheric aspects […]
RADICAL PEDAGOGY IS NOT about narcissism Narcissus is always looking for her/his/their own reflection self-reflecting: Hey guys! Something with your eyes! Decolonize your guise! Does size matter, otherwise? De-phallocentricize? De-logocentricize? De-anthropocentricize? De-centricize Za-zee-zy-ci-say-wi-fi-csi-9-see-centric Eccentric like a clown, like a fool gettin’ down Like the shepherd gettin’ laid, am I overpaid? From ‘RADICAL PEDAGOGY’, the collective […]
* Dylan Robinson Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020, p. 15.
So, fellow reader, yesterday’s post was a test. Did you pass? Just because I am not here to accompany a post about a book (in this case Artists and Buildings by Scottish artist David Harding), it doesn’t turn that post into a placeholder. I am behind every post that our librarian types; thinking within his […]
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. We write incarcerated by the myth of individual authorship. Whether poetry or prose (or whatever this is) I blow out hard from these puffed-up lungs. […]
Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]
While in the cradle, every parent, grandparent and god-fearing aunt wants the best for the new baby, hoping to keep the Evil Eye at bay. Over the years, their prayers for safety turn into dreams of success as the child grows and starts on the path through school to college. Now, bursting with pride at […]
Today is the first day back at school for my son, Eneko, and the first week of classes at Ohio State University, where I’ll be teaching the class ‘documenta 14 and the ‘decolonial turn’: Contemporary Theory and Art Education’. As a way to celebrate all of the students heading back to class from their summers […]